Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 8,591 6,257 6,709
As % of all contract jobs in England 18.46% 22.67% 20.84%
As % of the General category 32.96% 35.30% 35.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,350 4,187 4,413
10th Percentile £360 £347 £363
25th Percentile £450 £420 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £795 £800 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £537 £575
% change year-on-year +2.52% -6.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 98 119
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.48 £14.90
25th Percentile £20.28 £18.91 £23.82
Median hourly rate £43.96 £28.91 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.06% -17.40% +36.13%
75th Percentile - £63.00 £55.13
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.75 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £28.55 £33.00
% change year-on-year +53.98% -13.48% +28.35%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 26,068 17,724 18,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 56.01% 64.21% 58.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,310 11,214 11,424
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,281 1,015 930
10th Percentile £13.63 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.17 £17.63
Median hourly rate £30.90 £25.08 £39.18
Median % change year-on-year +23.23% -35.99% +36.26%
75th Percentile £57.00 £45.97 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £29.50 £25.11 £35.00
% change year-on-year +17.48% -28.26% +27.27%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 23 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 23 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 23 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 5,204 £590 - 11,892
North of England 0 1,343 £514 +10.42% 1,944
South East -1 739 £500 -2.72% 2,202
North West -1 645 £502 +11.44% 1,085
Yorkshire 0 618 £525 +5.00% 650
Midlands -3 602 £514 +8.21% 1,174
West Midlands -2 447 £525 +1.01% 730
South West -5 356 £525 -5.47% 988
East of England +2 209 £549 -3.68% 668
East Midlands -2 152 £500 +19.76% 442
North East -5 73 £500 +13.96% 222
South Coast - 1 £450 -
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 288 (3.35%) Confluence
2 238 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 82 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
4 73 (0.85%) Apache Spark
5 57 (0.66%) Apache
6 43 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 31 (0.36%) CMS
8 24 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
8 24 (0.28%) SAS
9 15 (0.17%) Camunda
9 15 (0.17%) IIS
9 15 (0.17%) Jupyter
10 9 (0.10%) CICS
11 8 (0.093%) Ethereum
12 6 (0.070%) Appian
12 6 (0.070%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.070%) WebLogic
13 5 (0.058%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 5 (0.058%) WebSphere
13 5 (0.058%) WordPress
Applications
1 478 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 191 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
3 182 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 130 (1.51%) Microsoft Project
5 72 (0.84%) MS Visio
6 56 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
7 27 (0.31%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.093%) Trello
9 7 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.081%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.047%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.047%) Sketch
10 4 (0.047%) Windchill
11 3 (0.035%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.035%) AutoCAD
11 3 (0.035%) Final Cut Pro
11 3 (0.035%) Notion
11 3 (0.035%) Oracle Smart View
12 2 (0.023%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 332 (3.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 112 (1.30%) Oracle Payables
3 102 (1.19%) NetSuite
4 95 (1.11%) Oracle Receivables
5 80 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
6 74 (0.86%) Oracle General Ledger
7 61 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
8 59 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
9 45 (0.52%) Oracle Financials
10 42 (0.49%) Workday HCM
11 41 (0.48%) SAP FI
12 40 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 33 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
14 32 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
15 31 (0.36%) Aladdin
16 29 (0.34%) SAP CO
17 24 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
17 24 (0.28%) SAP BRIM
17 24 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
18 23 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,387 (16.14%) Azure
2 964 (11.22%) AWS
3 590 (6.87%) Power Platform
4 485 (5.65%) GCP
5 307 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 289 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
7 287 (3.34%) SaaS
8 286 (3.33%) GitHub
9 219 (2.55%) Entra ID
10 217 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
11 195 (2.27%) Snowflake
12 141 (1.64%) Serverless
13 123 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
14 119 (1.39%) dbt
14 119 (1.39%) Power Automate
15 116 (1.35%) Amazon S3
16 108 (1.26%) Microsoft Copilot
17 99 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
17 99 (1.15%) OCI
18 93 (1.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 158 (1.84%) Firewall
2 139 (1.62%) Network Security
3 100 (1.16%) VPN
4 78 (0.91%) DNS
5 51 (0.59%) TCP/IP
6 49 (0.57%) DHCP
7 46 (0.54%) WAN
8 43 (0.50%) BGP
9 37 (0.43%) SSL
10 33 (0.38%) VLAN
11 32 (0.37%) Multicast
12 29 (0.34%) Wireless
13 25 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
14 23 (0.27%) LAN
14 23 (0.27%) OSPF
15 22 (0.26%) HTTP
15 22 (0.26%) SAN
16 21 (0.24%) Internet
17 15 (0.17%) Broadband
18 13 (0.15%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 480 (5.59%) Power BI
2 249 (2.90%) SQL Server
3 231 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
4 167 (1.94%) Metadata
5 145 (1.69%) Relational Database
6 121 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
7 113 (1.32%) Data Lake
8 106 (1.23%) Tableau
9 79 (0.92%) NoSQL
10 71 (0.83%) BigQuery
11 66 (0.77%) Oracle Database
12 60 (0.70%) MongoDB
13 54 (0.63%) Power Query
14 52 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
15 48 (0.56%) Delta Lake
16 47 (0.55%) Snowflake Schema
17 40 (0.47%) Big Data
18 35 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
18 35 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
19 34 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 574 (6.68%) JIRA
2 267 (3.11%) Git
3 151 (1.76%) Jenkins
4 99 (1.15%) GitLab
5 61 (0.71%) Selenium
6 45 (0.52%) JUnit
7 35 (0.41%) SonarQube
8 33 (0.38%) Bitbucket
8 33 (0.38%) Cucumber
9 29 (0.34%) Claude Code
9 29 (0.34%) REST Assured
9 29 (0.34%) Visual Studio
10 28 (0.33%) Maven
11 26 (0.30%) Gradle
12 23 (0.27%) Cypress.io
13 22 (0.26%) ERwin
13 22 (0.26%) Postman
13 22 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
14 17 (0.20%) Zephyr
15 16 (0.19%) TeamCity
General
1 2,692 (31.34%) Social Skills
2 1,841 (21.43%) Banking
3 1,266 (14.74%) Analytical Skills
4 445 (5.18%) Public Sector
5 429 (4.99%) Legal
6 375 (4.37%) Organisational Skills
7 341 (3.97%) Retail
8 335 (3.90%) Investment Banking
9 311 (3.62%) Front Office
10 309 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
11 287 (3.34%) Financial Institution
12 185 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 176 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
14 175 (2.04%) Manufacturing
15 161 (1.87%) Marketing
16 154 (1.79%) General Ledger
17 148 (1.72%) Billing
18 143 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
19 134 (1.56%) Local Government
20 131 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,233 (14.35%) Analyst
2 976 (11.36%) Senior
3 875 (10.19%) Lead
4 861 (10.02%) Developer
5 754 (8.78%) Architect
6 622 (7.24%) Business Analyst
7 589 (6.86%) Project Manager
8 570 (6.63%) Consultant
9 290 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
10 266 (3.10%) Data Engineer
11 232 (2.70%) Financial Analyst
12 202 (2.35%) Senior Manager
13 181 (2.11%) Senior Developer
14 173 (2.01%) Java Developer
14 173 (2.01%) Programme Manager
15 172 (2.00%) IT Manager
16 171 (1.99%) Data Analyst
17 164 (1.91%) Accountant
18 155 (1.80%) Finance Manager
19 141 (1.64%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 340 (3.96%) Terraform
2 338 (3.93%) REST
3 253 (2.94%) .NET
4 231 (2.69%) Kafka
5 223 (2.60%) React
6 217 (2.53%) Oracle Fusion
7 169 (1.97%) Middleware
8 168 (1.96%) Spring
9 164 (1.91%) Spring Boot
10 128 (1.49%) PySpark
11 118 (1.37%) RESTful
12 89 (1.04%) OAuth
13 85 (0.99%) JSON
14 83 (0.97%) XML
15 79 (0.92%) SOAP
16 78 (0.91%) Redux
17 72 (0.84%) Node.js
18 70 (0.81%) HTML
19 69 (0.80%) AngularJS
20 67 (0.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 483 (5.62%) Onboarding
2 456 (5.31%) Product Ownership
3 404 (4.70%) Cloud Native
4 241 (2.81%) Management Information System
5 220 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 209 (2.43%) Data Structures
7 179 (2.08%) AI Agents
7 179 (2.08%) Virtual Team
8 175 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
9 172 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
10 167 (1.94%) Derivative
11 160 (1.86%) Data Centre
12 147 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 140 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
14 118 (1.37%) Fixed Income
15 114 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
16 106 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
17 100 (1.16%) Equities
18 98 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
19 93 (1.08%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 350 (4.07%) Windows
2 278 (3.24%) Linux
3 139 (1.62%) Unix
4 84 (0.98%) Windows Server
5 54 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 44 (0.51%) Apple iOS
7 38 (0.44%) Windows 10
8 36 (0.42%) Android
9 30 (0.35%) Mac OS
9 30 (0.35%) Solaris
10 29 (0.34%) zOS
11 11 (0.13%) Ubuntu
11 11 (0.13%) VMS
12 10 (0.12%) AIX
13 7 (0.081%) Oracle Linux
14 6 (0.070%) HPUX
14 6 (0.070%) SUSE
15 5 (0.058%) CentOS
16 4 (0.047%) Windows Server 2019
17 3 (0.035%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,366 (27.54%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,803 (20.99%) Agile
3 1,158 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
4 1,156 (13.46%) AI
4 1,156 (13.46%) Migration
5 1,028 (11.97%) Continuous Improvement
6 995 (11.58%) CI/CD
7 989 (11.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 908 (10.57%) Analytics
9 884 (10.29%) DevOps
10 856 (9.96%) Decision-Making
11 824 (9.59%) ERP
12 804 (9.36%) Roadmaps
13 768 (8.94%) Validation
14 706 (8.22%) Project Management
15 670 (7.80%) Data Modelling
16 651 (7.58%) Change Management
17 633 (7.37%) User Acceptance Testing
18 623 (7.25%) Risk Management
19 591 (6.88%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,187 (13.82%) SQL
2 1,071 (12.47%) Python
3 567 (6.60%) Java
4 340 (3.96%) C#
5 264 (3.07%) PowerShell
6 235 (2.74%) JavaScript
7 207 (2.41%) TypeScript
8 134 (1.56%) Bash
9 99 (1.15%) PL/SQL
10 80 (0.93%) Shell Script
11 60 (0.70%) C++
12 59 (0.69%) T-SQL
13 56 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 54 (0.63%) Bicep
15 49 (0.57%) Korn
16 45 (0.52%) Go
17 36 (0.42%) Scala
17 36 (0.42%) VBA
18 34 (0.40%) Kotlin
19 33 (0.38%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 683 (7.95%) Security Cleared
2 668 (7.78%) Degree
3 478 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 249 (2.90%) PMP
5 214 (2.49%) PMI Certification
6 196 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 185 (2.15%) ACCA
8 162 (1.89%) CIMA
9 132 (1.54%) CISSP
9 132 (1.54%) DV Cleared
10 120 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
11 110 (1.28%) Azure Certification
12 75 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
13 74 (0.86%) AWS Certification
14 71 (0.83%) Master's Degree
15 66 (0.77%) CISM
16 48 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
17 45 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 39 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 36 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 633 (7.37%) Data Quality
2 378 (4.40%) QA
3 326 (3.79%) PMO
4 190 (2.21%) GDPR
5 134 (1.56%) NIST
6 115 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 104 (1.21%) GRC
8 99 (1.15%) Accessibility
9 93 (1.08%) IFRS
10 84 (0.98%) SLA
11 62 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 52 (0.61%) ISO 20022
13 45 (0.52%) GAAP
14 39 (0.45%) PCI DSS
15 32 (0.37%) Solvency II
16 31 (0.36%) SEPA
17 27 (0.31%) COBIT
18 24 (0.28%) MiFID
19 19 (0.22%) Basel III
19 19 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 231 (2.69%) Docker
2 230 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 82 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 27 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (0.28%) vSphere
7 20 (0.23%) RACF
8 16 (0.19%) Hyper-V
9 14 (0.16%) VMware NSX
10 11 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.12%) NFS
12 8 (0.093%) IAG
13 6 (0.070%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.047%) ACF2
15 4 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
16 3 (0.035%) GPFS
16 3 (0.035%) KVM
16 3 (0.035%) Time Sharing Option
17 2 (0.023%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 401 (4.67%) Kubernetes
2 166 (1.93%) Ansible
3 83 (0.97%) Grafana
4 80 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 63 (0.73%) SCCM
6 60 (0.70%) Prometheus
6 60 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (0.28%) Control-M
7 24 (0.28%) Progress Chef
8 18 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
9 15 (0.17%) Argo
10 14 (0.16%) OMEGAMON
11 11 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 11 (0.13%) FortiGate
12 10 (0.12%) HP ALM
12 10 (0.12%) Packer
12 10 (0.12%) Tivoli
13 9 (0.10%) vRealize
14 8 (0.093%) ITRS Geneos
14 8 (0.093%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 1,270 (14.78%) Microsoft
2 735 (8.56%) Oracle
3 674 (7.85%) SAP
4 336 (3.91%) ServiceNow
5 317 (3.69%) Databricks
6 223 (2.60%) Salesforce
7 203 (2.36%) Google
8 165 (1.92%) IBM
9 130 (1.51%) VMware
10 129 (1.50%) Workday
11 112 (1.30%) Cisco
12 106 (1.23%) Splunk
13 86 (1.00%) CyberArk
14 77 (0.90%) OpenAI
15 66 (0.77%) Ariba
16 55 (0.64%) Bloomberg
17 52 (0.61%) Citrix
18 48 (0.56%) Murex
19 47 (0.55%) Sage
20 46 (0.54%) Red Hat